Homework
- Rest as Resistance – Pick one way of rest/relaxation that you’re going to use to fight against the pressure to be productive in 2021. It could be yoga, a quiet walk, etc.
- Find an accountability partner and share your plan of rest with them so that they can hold you accountable.
- It’s a New Year, so you need to make sure you are rocking with Broke-ish across all of our social media platforms.
- Twitter – @broke_ish
- Facebook – Broke-ish
- Instagram – @brokeishpodcast
Receipts
The 1619 Project
Author: Matthew Desmond (The New York Times Magazine)
Date: Aug 14, 2020
Capitalism needs racism: A response to the NYT 1619 Project
Author: Joel Wendland-Liu (The People’s Project)
Date: Jan 9, 2020
The tyranny of the workday: how capitalism colonizes your free time
Author: Thomas McGath
Aug 27, 2018
Is Capitalism Racist?
Author: Nicholas Lemann (The New Yorker)
Date: May 18, 2020
Toxic Productivity: Grappling with “Enough”
Author: Katy Dimple Manning, LMSW (Houston Therapy)
Date: Sep 14, 2020
OPINION: ‘Hustle’ culture is unhealthy and toxic
Author: Raveena Chaudhari (The Red & Black)
Date: Jan 21, 2019
How the stress of racism can harm your health—and what that has to do with Covid-19
Author: ALISSA GREENBERG (pbs.org)
Date: Jul 14, 2020
Exploiting Black Labor After the Abolition of Slavery
Author: KATHY ROBERTS FORDE and Bryan Bowman (U.S. News & World Report)
Date: Feb 7, 2017